Pros And Cons Of Fmla
The policy in question is the Federal Medical Leave Act (FMLA). The Federal Medical Leave act was originally enacted over twenty years ago but has not been revised and expanded to include payment while time is taken off. FMLA is currently the closest thing the United States has to a parental leave policy, as it allows for some working women and me to take time off from their job while they have a child or care for their family; this leave from work however, is not paid.
The idea for the FMLA originated in 1984 in California when a court in California ruled that the Pregnancy Discrimination amendments in 1978 was discriminatory towards men based on their sex. As a result of this, a group of individuals including the legal director of the …show more content…
Bill Clinton was elected President and two weeks into his term, signed FMLA making it federal law. There were restrictions however, as only certain individuals were covered under FMLA. In order to qualify to take leave under FMLA an individual must work for a company that have over 50 employees and has been employed with that company for at least one year and in that year worked at least 1,250 hours. If leave is taken, the employee has the right to go return to the same job with the same pay and benefits as before leave was …show more content…
One of these main groups was The National Partnership for Women & Families that initiated worked with the Women’s Legal Defense Fund to write the first draft of FMLA. These individuals realized that the only way for FMLA to become a federal law was to have many different groups of people advocating for it. For this reason, the expanded the circumstances under which family and medical leave could be taken resulting in a greater reach of groups of people. Some of the main groups that were reached out to and supported FMLA included women’s, labor, disability, children’s, religious, senior citizens’ groups, as stated before, as well as the United States Catholic Conference and the American Association for Retired Persons (AARP). Having such a broad range of views as well as organization both large and small represented was key in eventually passing this bill. The US Catholic Conference was especially important not only because of it’s size but also political
The idea for the FMLA originated in 1984 in California when a court in California ruled that the Pregnancy Discrimination amendments in 1978 was discriminatory towards men based on their sex. As a result of this, a group of individuals including the legal director of the …show more content…
Bill Clinton was elected President and two weeks into his term, signed FMLA making it federal law. There were restrictions however, as only certain individuals were covered under FMLA. In order to qualify to take leave under FMLA an individual must work for a company that have over 50 employees and has been employed with that company for at least one year and in that year worked at least 1,250 hours. If leave is taken, the employee has the right to go return to the same job with the same pay and benefits as before leave was …show more content…
One of these main groups was The National Partnership for Women & Families that initiated worked with the Women’s Legal Defense Fund to write the first draft of FMLA. These individuals realized that the only way for FMLA to become a federal law was to have many different groups of people advocating for it. For this reason, the expanded the circumstances under which family and medical leave could be taken resulting in a greater reach of groups of people. Some of the main groups that were reached out to and supported FMLA included women’s, labor, disability, children’s, religious, senior citizens’ groups, as stated before, as well as the United States Catholic Conference and the American Association for Retired Persons (AARP). Having such a broad range of views as well as organization both large and small represented was key in eventually passing this bill. The US Catholic Conference was especially important not only because of it’s size but also political